Matthew Sears is an associate professor of classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick. Crete, Greece’s southernmost region and largest island, should be on everyone’s bucket list.

Crete is an Island roughly the size and shape of Long Island that lies approximately halfway between the Peloponnese and the coast of North Africa. Steep mountains, some rising two thousand meters, ...

Ever since 1900, when Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans first discovered the hundreds of clay tablets in the ruins of King Minos’ great palace at Knossos, Crete, scholars have been puzzling over a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For half an hour or so, as we headed up the steepest part of Crete’s Rouvas Gorge, the canyon’s walls closed in ...

A brief Crete history for travelers One thing Crete has is history… and lots of it. Crete is ‘old school’, wIth evidence of ...

A church bell that’s believed to be one of the first to toll over the village of Crete will find its way home this spring after a deal worked out between the Crete Historical Society and Crete ...

Founded in 1836, Crete claims to be one of the oldest villages in the South Suburbs. It boasts a rural charm, where history has blended well with modern times, allowing the old and new to peacefully ...